The Commission must champion the Green Deal as a strategy for hope, resilience and fairness. Now is the moment to lead with courage – and to invest in people and planet.
The Green 10's asks for Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to stay the course on the European Green Deal, not only to confront the climate, pollution and biodiversity crises, but also to protect civic space, uphold democratic pluralism, strengthen EU security, reduce fossil fuel dependency, and ultimately safeguard people’s health and wellbeing.
But going back on the 2035 zero-emissions target and deploying no industrial strategy could instead see loss of 1 million auto jobs.
A new study models the impact of EU electric vehicle leadership and ambitious policies on investment and jobs.
In many markets European carmakers are falling behind Chinese EV manufacturers as they have little to offer to aspiring drivers in the Global South ri...